That big Cattleya hybrid is absolutely gorgeous, and it's nice that you made space for it despite your preference for species. I've got several unifoliate species and big-flowered hybrids. They are all fragrant to intensely fragrant. Not all are pleasant. I've had a Cattleya warscewiczii which smelled like mothballs. On the other hand, Cattleya gaskelliana smells absolutely beautiful. Then there's Cattlianthe Portia, which smells like rootbeer. The complex hybrids can have a perfume that can fill a room and leave you downright woozy!
I enjoyed watching😌🙏💖I haven't a Zygopetalum, although I should purchase one and grow it. I did own one many years ago and remember its sweet fragrance. I also have a TH-cam channel that is about Orchids and cacti😌🤲
very interesting to see crinutum in-situ. I found to get mine to grow well, it takes a lot of light. The higher the light, the larger the plant gets, mine is really quite a monstrously tall plant.
I have just found your delightful channel and have been enjoying your videos. You may have already had an identification of your hybrid cattleya but if not, I believe it is Rlc. Sa -Ngob Delight.
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried a Google search for that hybrid but couldn't find any photos. Is it a plant that you grow? I guess the person I got it from would have bought it between ten and twenty years ago. There are so many of those complex hybrids!
I think the Zygopetalum is Warringa Wonder - I have an almost identical looking plant that has those lovely, really tall spikes and divine hyacinth fragrance
Thanks Barnaby. I think that's the one. There's very little on the web but I think that should be 'Warringal (a place in Australia) Wonder'. This name was registered in 1985 on the International Orchid Register and the breeders name is given as C.Halls which doesn't mean anything to me. There are very few images on Google but they match up perfectly with mine so I'm really grateful. There are so many hybrid Zygos that look so similar I gave up trying to guess. Where did you get your plant from? Mine came from Cambridge Botanic Gardens when they were clearing out unwanted hybrid orchids that had originally been bought in for an orchid show at least 25 years ago. So agin, the timescale also rings true. Thanks again. Howard
@@HowardRice Glad I could help. I obtained the plant when I did the Wisley Diploma about a decade ago from their orchid collection. It was an old backbulb division I rescued that has thrived since saving it from the compost heap. I've divided it a couple of times and given bits away - it becomes such a monster over time. Thanks for the name correction; I'll add the 'l' to my label. I've really enjoyed your videos - I also collect orchids primarily for scent and you've added a few to my wish list! Coelogyne cumingii especially - the scent sounds incredible. Looks like there's an orchid nursery in the UK that might have a plant so fingers crossed.
@@daisyflower4105 Google Warringal and Maps takes you to a neighbourhood in Melbourne. My main point was to establish the correct spelling of the name of the Zygo.
Zygopetalum species can be pretty tricky to mantain. For example, Zygopetalum maxillare, the only Zygopetalum native to my country (Argentina) only grows on the trunk of certain Tree fern species. Growing medium, I believe, is the most important think to consider with Zygopetalum species. Hybrids are much more forgiving.
Useful backgound information. Thanks for posting. After growing them easily for years some of mine aren't doing so well at the moment and I'm not really sure why.
Search for information about the growing media in nature for that particular species and maybe they'll do better. I think that Zygopetalum hybrids might be more versatile or robust in that regard and that's why they are so much more common than the species, even in their native range. Good luck!
I really wouldn't want to stick my neck out and put a name to my un-nmaed Zygo. There are so many hybids and even the species are highly variable. I've spent ages browsing the web in the past and gave up. At one time I was tempted by Z. mackayi because quite a few images on the internet look similar and it flowers in the autumn, which mine does.
That big Cattleya hybrid is absolutely gorgeous, and it's nice that you made space for it despite your preference for species. I've got several unifoliate species and big-flowered hybrids. They are all fragrant to intensely fragrant. Not all are pleasant. I've had a Cattleya warscewiczii which smelled like mothballs. On the other hand, Cattleya gaskelliana smells absolutely beautiful. Then there's Cattlianthe Portia, which smells like rootbeer. The complex hybrids can have a perfume that can fill a room and leave you downright woozy!
I admire your Orquids and all your plants. Your green house looks very healthy, clean and well groomed!
Just discovered your wonderful channel. I grow Z. intermedium and a Z. 'Trozy Blue' which has a fantastic scent!
I enjoyed watching😌🙏💖I haven't a Zygopetalum, although I should purchase one and grow it. I did own one many years ago and remember its sweet fragrance. I also have a TH-cam channel that is about Orchids and cacti😌🤲
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Lovely to see more of your wonderful collection. I especially loved the film of the zygopetalums growing wild. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed the video. I hadn't been growing orchids for very long before my trip to Brazil and I really learned a lot about how to grow them.
very interesting to see crinutum in-situ. I found to get mine to grow well, it takes a lot of light. The higher the light, the larger the plant gets, mine is really quite a monstrously tall plant.
I have just found your delightful channel and have been enjoying your videos. You may have already had an identification of your hybrid cattleya but if not, I believe it is Rlc. Sa -Ngob Delight.
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried a Google search for that hybrid but couldn't find any photos. Is it a plant that you grow? I guess the person I got it from would have bought it between ten and twenty years ago. There are so many of those complex hybrids!
Hi your first zygo is Zygopetalum Winter Sprite. I actually want to get it for one of the orchid nursery here in Canada 🍁 🇨🇦.
I love Zygopetalum orchids.
This week start some new flowers.
I think the Zygopetalum is Warringa Wonder - I have an almost identical looking plant that has those lovely, really tall spikes and divine hyacinth fragrance
Thanks Barnaby. I think that's the one. There's very little on the web but I think that should be 'Warringal (a place in Australia) Wonder'. This name was registered in 1985 on the International Orchid Register and the breeders name is given as C.Halls which doesn't mean anything to me. There are very few images on Google but they match up perfectly with mine so I'm really grateful. There are so many hybrid Zygos that look so similar I gave up trying to guess. Where did you get your plant from? Mine came from Cambridge Botanic Gardens when they were clearing out unwanted hybrid orchids that had originally been bought in for an orchid show at least 25 years ago. So agin, the timescale also rings true. Thanks again. Howard
@@HowardRice Glad I could help. I obtained the plant when I did the Wisley Diploma about a decade ago from their orchid collection. It was an old backbulb division I rescued that has thrived since saving it from the compost heap. I've divided it a couple of times and given bits away - it becomes such a monster over time. Thanks for the name correction; I'll add the 'l' to my label.
I've really enjoyed your videos - I also collect orchids primarily for scent and you've added a few to my wish list! Coelogyne cumingii especially - the scent sounds incredible. Looks like there's an orchid nursery in the UK that might have a plant so fingers crossed.
@@HowardRice The place in Australia is WARRINGAH .
@@daisyflower4105 Google Warringal and Maps takes you to a neighbourhood in Melbourne. My main point was to establish the correct spelling of the name of the Zygo.
I always repot my orchids .
Zygopetalum species can be pretty tricky to mantain. For example, Zygopetalum maxillare, the only Zygopetalum native to my country (Argentina) only grows on the trunk of certain Tree fern species.
Growing medium, I believe, is the most important think to consider with Zygopetalum species.
Hybrids are much more forgiving.
Useful backgound information. Thanks for posting. After growing them easily for years some of mine aren't doing so well at the moment and I'm not really sure why.
Search for information about the growing media in nature for that particular species and maybe they'll do better.
I think that Zygopetalum hybrids might be more versatile or robust in that regard and that's why they are so much more common than the species, even in their native range.
Good luck!
The no ID Cattleya could possibly be rlc. Yi Mei Queen or Rlc. Chien Ya Beauty
Thanks. That very helpful. I'll look them up.
Is this possibly a zygopetalum starburst parkside?
I've never seen a specimen this large, so its hard to tell.
I really wouldn't want to stick my neck out and put a name to my un-nmaed Zygo. There are so many hybids and even the species are highly variable. I've spent ages browsing the web in the past and gave up. At one time I was tempted by Z. mackayi because quite a few images on the internet look similar and it flowers in the autumn, which mine does.
Starburst 'Parkside' is a Galeopetalum and really quite different, both the blooms and the plant.